Record revealed
Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
This affidavit is testament to the lengths enslaved African people went to in seeking their freedom.
Series
War Office: Headquarters West Africa Command and Allied Joint Staff: Papers
Catalogue reference: WO 294
What's it about?
WO 294
This series consists of headquarters papers of the West Africa Command and the Allied Joint Staff after the Second World War.Also contained in this series are papers relevant to discussions held with French and Belgian authorities on military...
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WO 294
-
Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: Headquarters West Africa Command and Allied Joint Staff: Papers
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1949-1956
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series consists of headquarters papers of the West Africa Command and the Allied Joint Staff after the Second World War.
Also contained in this series are papers relevant to discussions held with French and Belgian authorities on military matters of common interest to their respective colonial territories.
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- English
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 45 file(s)
-
Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
-
Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
-
The West Africa Command was formed at Accra in July 1940 and was disbanded there in July 1956.
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14498/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
9,787,085 records
Within the department: WO
Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General,...
You are currently looking at the series: WO 294
War Office: Headquarters West Africa Command and Allied Joint Staff: Papers
You may be interested in
-
-
Record revealed
Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 1945
After six years of brutal global conflict, this document marked the end of the Second World War. -
Record revealed
‘The Book of Negroes’: Black refugees who fought in the American Revolution
This volume offers a glimpse of the numerous ‘Black Loyalists’ who seized the American Revolutionary War as a chance to gain freedom from enslavement.
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.